Here is some information on a new book from Juan Paulo Ramírez, Ph.D. Faculty Geography and GIScience, University of Nebraska. Geography of Latin America: A Geographic Information Systems Approach depicts the most relevant human and physical features of Latin America. Environmental threats that some ecosystems are experiencing, including contentious issues such as illegal immigration and indigenous rights, are [...]
Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Alexandre Javakhishvili Geographical Society of Georgia Dear Colleagues, Scientific bodies of Georgia – Institute of Geography, Tbilisi State University and Geographical Society of Georgia – organize an International Scientific Conference on "Environment and Global Warming" to be held from 15 to 17 September, 2011 in [...]
Dear colleagues and friends, Geoparks are becoming very popular due to their combination of conservation, sustainable development and community involvement. UNESCO became active in this area in 1999 and in 2001 decided to gives its ad hoc support to national Geopark initiatives which are coordinated through a Global Geoparks Network (GGN) where national geological heritage [...]
Rescuers are toiling overnight in Christchurch, New Zealand to reach scores of trapped people after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake which has claimed at least 65 lives. Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker says more than 100 people are feared buried in collapsed buildings in the city. The disaster struck at a shallow depth of 5km (3.1 miles) on [...]
Deadline for 2011 grant applications submission - February 25, 2011 In accordance with the Russian Geographical Society’s Development Strategy for 2011-2015, adopted at the 14th Congress of the Russian Geographical Society, priority will be given to grant applications in the following fields: Sustainable development of Russian territories; Preservation of Russia’s ethnographical and cultural heritage; Expeditions and travel [...]
Message from Department of Geography at Sultan Qaboos University. Dear Colleagues In the frame of the “Gulf Research Meeting 2011” which will be held at Cambridge University, on 6-9 July 2011, we intend to organize a workshop about “Modernization and socio-economic changes in the Gulf Arab Cities. Therefore, we kindly invite you to visit the link below for [...]
ScienceDaily (25 novembre 2010) - La perte de la biodiversité se poursuivra dans le 21e siècle. extinctions à l'échelle mondiale va fortement augmenter, les espèces en moyenne abundance1 va diminuer et leur distribution sera perturbée. Les scientifiques pensaient jusqu'à récemment que la complexité de la biodiversité fait qu'il est impossible de prédire les tendances futures. [...]
ScienceDaily (Nov. 25, 2010) — The loss of biodiversity will continue in the 21st Century. Global-scale extinctions will increase strongly, the average species abundance1 will decline and their distribution will be disturbed. Scientists thought until recently that the complexity of biodiversity made it unfeasible to predict future trends. Now, however, like the climatologists, life science [...]
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